As part of Wolverhampton Safeguarding Week (11th -17th June) Loudmouth Theatre Company will be doing two evening performances at The Way Youth Zone, School Street Wolverhampton, WV3 0NR as follows: Tues 12th June - 'Helping Hands' Helping Hands is a sensitive theatre in education performance aimed at children and young people aged 9-...

All resources for Wolverhampton Safeguarding Week are now available from our Safeguarding Week campaign page . There are lots of ways for you to be involved: ​* Complete our short survey to order your resources and tell us what you will be doing to raise awareness * Use the email signature, screensavers and facebook / Twitter ba...

The new guidance is for information only REVISED GUIDANCE WILL COMMENCE 3 SEPTEMBER 2018. UNTIL THAT POINT SCHOOLS AND COLLEGE MUST CONTINUE TO HAVE REGARD TO THE 2016 KCSIE Click here to view - Revised guidance

As part of Safeguarding Week 2018 (11th - 17th June), Wolverhampton Safeguarding Boards and the Safer Wolverhampton Partnership are hosting a conference "Learning from Serious Case Reviews, Domestic Homicide Reviews and Safeguarding Adults Reviews". See the poster below for full details. Hover your mouse arrow over the poster below, and then c...

The PSHE Association and the Home Office have launched new and improved teaching resources which support the government's Disrespect NoBody campaign. The campaign aims to help young people: • understand what a healthy relationship is and; • re-think their views of controlling behaviour, violence, abuse, sexual abuse and what consent means within th...

There are two remaining opportunities to hear about and discuss the learning from the Serious Case Review into the tragic death of Child G. You can come to either of these remaining two sessions which take place on: • 25th May from 12.30 to 1.30 at the Gem Centre – click here to book a place or • 25th June from 12.30 ...

There is currently capacity on the following courses: - • Domestic Abuse and the Impact on Adults, Families and Children • Engaging Families and Working with resistance • Working with Children who display Harmful Sexualised Behaviour • Abuse Linked to Faith and Belief • Forced Marriage and Honour based Violence • Making Safeguarding Personal...

This guidance is aimed at charity trustees and highlights important sources of information to help you protect at risk groups. How to get checks and assessments on volunteers, employees and trustees if your charity works with children and adults at risk. Safeguarding is a key governance priority for all charities, not just those working with groups...

NICE and SCIE have published a new quick guide for young people– Getting help to overcome abuse: a quick guide for young people receiving support . The guide (which is also downloadable as a pdf from the above link) helps young people to understand what is meant by abuse and neglect and describes how they might feel because of their...

The City of Wolverhampton was awarded Dementia Friendly Community status (DFC) by the Alzheimer's Society for 2018 on 5 December 2017. The Alzheimer's Society 'status' is a recognition of all the good work done by partners in the Dementia Action Alliance who have undertaken actions to become dementia friendly. The intention is to retain the status ...

The first edition of Wolverhampton Safeguarding News (Spring 2018) was published one month ago but just in case you didn't get round to see it first time around - here it is! It covers both adults and children's safeguarding and is one more example of close joint working between Wolverhampton Safeguarding Children and Safeguarding Ad...

Barnardo's has launched free lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) resources to help teachers better educate children about same sex relationships and gender and sexual identities. The Real Love Rocks Resources are about helping all children and young people to think and chat about relationships, what they are, an...

MindEd for Families Are you a parent or carer who is concerned about your child? Or perhaps you just want some hints and tips on parenting? MindEd for Families has online advice and information from trusted sources and will help you to understand and identify early issues and best support your child. MindEd for Professionals & Volunteers This i...

The third phase of the Home Office Disrespect Nobody campaign has recently been launched, and runs throughout April 2018. The aim of the campaign is to prevent young people, both boys and girls aged 12 to 18 years old, from becoming perpetrators and victims of abusive relationships. For 2018, the focus of the campaign will be consent, sex...

The first edition of Wolverhampton Safeguarding News (Spring 2018) has now been published. It is yet another example of the joined up work between the city's Adults' and Children's Safeguarding Boards, and covers both adults and children's safeguarding. It is packed with news, opportunities and resources. Please share it wi...

In recent weeks the issue of unregistered schools has been in the national headlines as concerns have arisen regarding children attending illegal 'schools' which are not teaching the national curriculum and are not protecting children. Any organisation that provides full time education to five or more pupils of compulsory school age should be regis...

A number of Serious Case Reviews nationally have highlighted that recording the fact that children haven't been brought to appointments as 'Did Not Attend' has led to there being no follow up about the reasons for this with tragic consequences. Nottingham City Council, Nottingham City CCG and the Nottingham City Safeguarding Children Board hav...

An opportunity to look at the learning from Child G Serious Case Review ​Time ​March 26th 12.30-1.30pm ​Location ​Low Hill Community Centre Click on Lunch & learn to book your place Lunch & Learn Facilitated on this occasion by the Head of Safeguarding Dawn Williams and the Board Manager Sian Jones, the focus will be on the recently publish...

A new campaign has been launched urging people to play their part so that, "Together, we can tackle child abuse". It encourages members of the public to help protect children and young people by reporting any concerns they may have about the possible abuse or neglect of a child to the City of Wolverhampton Council, the NSPCC or West Midlands Police...

Childline and the Internet ​​ Watch Foundation have come together to provide a confidential service where children and young people can request the removal of sexual images of themselves which have been shared online. As part of that process the child / young person will be asked to: (a) provide a link to where the image is stored on...